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-34 posts tagged "America"
Jack Lyons | Friday, March 22, 2019
When describing relations between the Catholic Church in America and the Vatican, John L. Allen Jr. compared the climate to a game where two men take turns kicking each other until one of them gives up. “We are not actually engaged in a patient search for understanding,” he said in a lecture at Holy Cross
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 12, 2019
A response to “Fr. Jenkins has one hell of a job” Each day, I open the Opinion section of The [Failing] New York Times and often quip, “I wonder which President Trump tweet has people pissed off today?” After an anonymous op-ed flatly stated that a deep state coup was being prosecuted against President Trump,
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 29, 2018
We are all caught in the middle. You, you and you and me, too — perhaps especially me, an American-born-Russian caught under the clouds that surround the U.S. and Russia today. Let this piece be an invitation, then, to gain a little perspective. What is clear is that the new movie, “The Death of Stalin,”
Sara Schlecht | Thursday, November 15, 2018
It’s 2018, and nearly everything is political. Terrance Hayes’ sixth poetry collection, “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” uses that as energy to explore the current political climate. This collection of 70 sonnets was written during the first 200 days of the Trump presidency, and attempts to grapple with what it means to
Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 5, 2018
This Tuesday, we have the mid-term elections. There have been reports that say that there is a good chance voter turn-up is going to be up this year, especially among younger voters. In a period that is marked by extreme partisanship, I think it’s more important than ever to reach out and ask that everyone
Davis Gonsalves | Wednesday, October 24, 2018
When I started to rank things for this publication, I knew this list was inevitable. I took my time to write it because of the controversy I knew would ensue in two ways. One is because I am literally ranking a core essence to everyone’s being which includes their friends, family, favorite food and even
Mia Berry | Tuesday, October 9, 2018
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, the most pronounced form of government hypocrisy has involved the way we treat women as a whole and those who have been sexually assaulted. I get it, almost every industry has shown some hypocritical actions in how it treats women, but the governmental sector seems to be the only
Eddie Damstra | Monday, September 24, 2018
According to some political pundits, comedians and many people on Twitter, Donald Trump is not simply a bad president; he is an authoritarian fascist. Some have even likened the president to Adolf Hitler, arguing that policies like the travel ban or those dealing with border enforcement are not too dissimilar from the oppression carried out
Drew Lischke | Monday, September 17, 2018
Normally, I would refuse to start an argument by posing a question riddled with oversimplification and abstraction to which a fundamental answer is nearly universally accepted. Anything that fits these characteristics is generally a cliché (and I don’t like clichés). With that being said, though, my refusal only exists in normalcy. In case you haven’t
Jordan Ryan | Thursday, October 26, 2017
A primary concern of new parents is saving for their child’s college education. Our own college funds were likely started before we could even say the word “school.” The education of their children is often the most important investment parents think about. What is also incredibly important, and, unfortunately, often overlooked, is child care during